Antiroost device



Dec. 11, 1934. M1 H KEATlNG 1,983,613

ANTIROOST ADEVICE Filed Feb. 6, 1952' \\\\\.v WW/Z H65 Patented Dec. 11, 1934 UNITED sTATss OFFICE ANTIROGST DEVICE Application February 6, 1932, Serial No. 591,349

12 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in antiroost devices, and has as its principal object to prevent fowls from roosting on the top of a poultry watering device. Another object is to provide a device which can be cheaply manufactured and quickly and cheaply applied to the cover of an existing poultry waterer, to prevent roosting. Another object is to provide a device of this kind which has the form of a fiat disk or plate, and to connect the plate to the peak of an arched cover, for rocking.

Features of the invention include the use of a disk which can be cheaply stamped from sheet metal; the swivel attachment of this disk at the peak of the crown portion of the cover; the use of a single element for obtaining the swivel connection; the use of a split key or cotter for obtaining the connection; and the immovable attachment of this key either to the cover or tothe disk, thereby making the invention applicable either for that type of waterer which must be maintained in air-tight condition, or for the type in which entry of air is permissible.

Objects, features and advantages of the invention wll be set forth in the description of the drawing forming a part of this application, and in said drawing:

Figure l is a side elevation of a waterer illustrating one application of the invention;

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the disk;

Figure 3 is an enlarged section illustrating the device for connecting the disk to the cover and in which the cotter is embedded or immovably iixed in the disk;

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 illustrating a modification in which the cotter is immovably fixed in the cover rather than in the disk; and

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 3 illustrating a further modification, in which the cotter is immovably fixed to the disk by means of a coneshaped soldered connection, cooperating with the cover to assure universal tipping movements of the disk.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates the reservoir of the feeder, 2 is the drinking pan and 4 indicates the usual dome-shaped cover. At its peak, the cover is perforated as at 5, see Figure 3. The disk is indicated at 10 and has a downwardly pressed semi-spherical portion 11 forming ball-like prominence, the bottom or peak of which engages the peak of the cover as sho-wn, to obtain a condition of unstable equilibrium. This punched-out portion is centrally perforated as at 12 and a split key or cotter 14 passes through this perforation, its head 15 being arranged within the punched-out portion. The fastening device is immovably fixed to the disk by means of solder indicated atl. The device is attached to the cover by merely inserting the split key into the opening 5 of the cover and bending outwardly as shown to form a swivel connection. This is a very simple device for attaching the disk, and in itself is a feature of the invention. By embedding ythe head of the cotter in solder, the upper surface of the disk is smooth; another feature.

In Figure 4, a modification has been illustrated in which the peak portion of the arched cover is pressed outwardly to form a substantially semispherical projectionZO. A central opening 2l is provided in this punched-out portion and the cotter 22 is passed through this Aopening with its head lying withinthe punched-out portion. In this instance, solder is applied to immovably secure the'cotter to the cover, and to form a sealed joint, as required for that type of waterer in which an air-tight condition must be maintained to obtain proper feed of the water to the trough.

In applying, the ends of the split key are passed through an opening 24 in the disk, and its ends are bent over as shown, the connection being sufciently loose, in all instances to obtain a swiveling connection.

In Figure 5 has been shown an additional modification in which a split key 26 is used, but in which it is attached immovably to the plate or disk 10 by means of a cone-shaped solder connection 27, divergent toward the cover.

Insofar as I am aware, I am the first to provide a device of this kind in which a rocking-swivel connection is used, or in which a conical or semicircular projection is provided, to maintain the disk in a state of unstable equilibrium.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination with the cover of a poultry watering device, a disk, overlying the cover, means interposed between the disk and the cover forming a pivotal point permitting depression of the disk in any direction against the cover, and a split key connecting with the interposed means and securing the disk to the cover for swiveling motions.

2. A poultry waterer having an arched cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motions against and away from the cover, including a split key.

3. A poultry waterer having a cover element,

an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and Ameans connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motions toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection integral with one of the elements and convergent toward the other andV having a peak portion engaging the other, and a split key immovably secured in one of the elements and loosely connected with the other.

fi. A poultry Waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying'said cover element, and means connecting the elements in a mannerito condition the anti-roost element for rswiveling and rocking motions toward, against and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection'integralwith one of the elements and having its end in abutting furcruming relation to the opposed face of the other, and not traversing the same, and a iastening device attached to the projection, and loosely connected with the other element.

5. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an antiroost element overlying said cover element, and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motions toward, against and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection integral with one of the elements and having its end rockably impinging but not traversing the other, and a fastening device immovably embedded in the projection, and loosely connected with the other element.

6. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motions toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection integral with the cover and having its end rockable against but not traversing the antiroost element, and a fastening device immovably secured to the projection and loosely connected with the anti-roost element.

7. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motions toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection integral with the anti-roost element and having a portion iockable against the cover element, and a fastening device immovably secured to the projection and loosely connected with the cover ele-VY ment. Y

8. A poultry Waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motion toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a portion pressed out of one of'the elements, and rockingly engaged with the other, and a fastening device immovably em.- bedded by molded metal in said depression, and loosely connected with the other element.

9. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover and means connecting the elements in a Ymanner to condition the anti-roost element for swiveling and rocking motion toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a portion pressed out of one of the elements and rockingly engaged with the other, and a split key immovably secured by molded metal in said depression, and loosely connected with the other element.

l0. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and means connecting the elements in a manner to condition the anti-roost element f or swiveling and rocking motions toward and away from the cover, said connecting means including a projection integral with one of the elements, and a split key embedded in said projection and loosely connected with the other element, the said projection being formed of metal which can be molded.

11. A poultry waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover element, and means connecting the element in a manner to condition the anti-roost elements for swiveling and rocking motion toward andaway from the cover, said connecting means including a projection rigid with one of the elements and having its free end rockably engaging the other, and a split key having its head secured-to said projection and having its arms passing loosely through an opening in the other element and bent laterally at a point spaced from said element.

12. A poultry Waterer having a cover element, an anti-roost element overlying said cover, and means rigid with one of the elements acting to space them and rockable onthe other element to permit rotative motion of the anti-roost element and rocking motion of it against the cover as a stop, and means connected to said rigid spacing means and loosely connected with the other element.

MAURICE H. KEATING. 

